We are publishing a popular science essay by V.A. Yadov about the candidate's dissertation of Dm. Kurakina, response from Dm. Kurakin on an essay and about the complexity of scientific popularization, as well as the version of one sociologist presenting his version of events at the dissertation council on January 20, 2010 (based on materials from Live Journals). * * * V.A. Yadov about the scientific contribution to the dissertation of Dm.

The well-known Russian sociologist, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of General Sociology of the NRU GU-HSE Vladimir Gennadievich Nikolaev sent his comment on the circumstances of the defense of the candidate dissertation of Dmitry Kurakin. We publish his letter completely: “The result of the vote of the dissertation council at the Institute of Sociology left me in bewilderment.

The Frankfurt-on-Maine prosecutor’s office initiated an investigation against one of the Russian companies, which is suspected of delivering military equipment to Iran. This is reported on February 12 by DW-World . The suspicion of German law enforcement agencies was caused by the fact that in 2009, this company tried to send 218 armored remotes declared as civilian equipment to Iran through one of the terminals of the Frankfurt airport.

As a result of the air at the mountains between Chechnya and Ingushetia, not only militants were killed, but also civilians who gathered Cheremsha in the mountains.

In the town of Moscow OMON, the holiday “Sales of Winter” takes place, on which human rights activists are also present, the chairman of the Interregional Public Organization of the Civil Rights Committee, a member of the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights, Andrei Babushkin, told the Echo of Moscow .

Hundreds of people are forced to leave their homes in the capital of Somalia Mogadisho and fleeing due to fierce clashes between government troops and Islamist militants. As a result of battles, at least eight people died. According to the representative of the Somali military, the radical group of Islamist Al-Shabab fired at the positions of government troops in the north of Mogadisho.

On the first game day of the Winter Olympiad in Vancouver, it is planned to play four sets of awards. We are talking about skiing competitions (high -speed descent among men), freestyle (women, mogul), skating sports (men, 5000 meters), as well as biathlon (women, sprint). True, weather conditions may not allow ski medals to play medals. The Russian team has good chances to succeed in a dispute between biathlete and skaters.

We publish the popular science essay V.A. Yadova about the candidate dissertation of Dm. Kurakina, response dm. Kurakin at the essay and about the complexity of scientific popularization, as well as the version of one sociologist who sets out his version of events at the dissertation council on January 20, 2010 (based on the materials of living magazines). * * * V.A. Poisons about the scientific contribution to the dissertation of DM.

Dutch specialist Hus Hiddink decided to part with the Russian team. Hiddink spoke about this in his column in De Telegraaf. “After a very pleasant conversation with the new President of the RFU, we agreed to part on June 30, when my contract expires. We made such a decision right now, first of all, so that the RFU had time to search for a new head coach for the national team, ”Hiddink said.

The Russian Football Union confirmed the reports that in the summer of this year, Hus Hiddink will leave the Russian team. “The leadership of the RFU expresses sincere gratitude to Hiddink for the great and high -quality work that he did as the head coach of the Russian national team,” the statement published on the official website of the RFU said.

Another answer came to the editorial office of Polit.ru, the dean of the faculty of sociology of the GUGN, the chief researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Alexandrovich Yadov . We give the text of his response to V. Vakhstein and his colleagues completely: Dear Victor, As soon as you drew attention to the fact that some members of the council for some time leave the meeting hall, we began to clarify who and how long was absent.

The President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh signed a decree on the appointment of Sergei Shamba by the Prime Minister of the Republic. Turning to the chambers, Bagapsh said that he was a great responsibility, since his predecessor Alexander Ankvab "raised the prime minister’s bar so high that it would not be very easy to equal to him." "The heart of the republic, its economic development is the cabinet of ministers. The work of the whole republic depends on how it works," the president said.

A rally was held in Samara with a demand for the resignation of the regional leadership. According to RSN , 350 (according to other sources, about 1000) citizens advocated the resignation of the governor Vladimir Artyakov. Galina Yurpaeva, a member of the Central Council of the Volya party, said that the region’s leadership does not pay sufficient attention to the region’s problems while unemployment is growing and the position of workers is worsening.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will perform on the air on the air of Ukrainian television channels, UNIAN reports with reference to the press service of the secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. This will be Tymoshenko’s first speech after the publication of preliminary results of the presidential election of Ukraine, according to which the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych won.

After almost a weekly silence, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko turned to the Ukrainian people: “The second round of the presidential election ended, and I want to bow low to everyone who supported me at this difficult time with my trust, love, my voice, work in the headquarters and in areas, with my struggle for a decent life. I also bow low in this difficult time for Ukraine and for ours. victory.